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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 436796" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>There are many ways to find out families that could use a little help. There are probably many local organizations or agencies that would love for you to help. </p><p>I know that you can go to places like many have mentioned above. School councilors, law enforcement, local Fire Depts, DFACs, foster care, veteran groups like the American Legion or VFW, military, National Guard, hospital auxiliaries, mental health facilities, retirement homes, homeless shelters, clothes and food pantries, are just some I can name off the top of my head.</p><p></p><p>Churches are great at helping those less fortunate. And lets think of helping people year round, not just at Christmas. My Sunday School class has "adopted" two foster kids to help out. We are helping out a 15 year old girl and an 18 year old boy who are foster kids that are hard to place because of their age. </p><p></p><p>We also just did "Operation Christmas Child" last week. This is a Franklin Graham charity that sends shoeboxes of goodies to kids all around the world. My class did fifty of these, and my church was the local consolidation center in our area. We gathered 2452 of these and shipped them out to kids overseas. My wife worked that all last week and I went up and helped a couple of days of my vacation last week to box these up.</p><p></p><p>My church also goes to downtown Atlanta occasionally to help a soup kitchen. We will feed about 500 homeless people at a time. They will get several bowls of soup, tea, dessert, and four sandwiches to eat later. These people live on the street and under bridges. Most of them have problems with drugs, alcohol, mental disorders, with a majority of them are also HIV infected. We used to take our kids to help when they were younger, they have never messed with drugs after seeing what happens when you do.</p><p></p><p>My wife is also heavily involved in a local food pantry to help feed needy families. Every Saturday morning, another local church distributes food in our area. They used to help about 140 families during the Summer, but sadly, that number rose to 250 last Saturday in these tough economic times. Sometimes I will go up and help sort out food that is donated from local can food drives. So please donate to groups that collect food, it is put to good use!</p><p></p><p>So, there are many ways to help others. And with the current economic crises, I am afraid it will only get worse. So if you can, lend a hand to someone that needs it. Its so good for your soul too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 436796, member: 1674"] There are many ways to find out families that could use a little help. There are probably many local organizations or agencies that would love for you to help. I know that you can go to places like many have mentioned above. School councilors, law enforcement, local Fire Depts, DFACs, foster care, veteran groups like the American Legion or VFW, military, National Guard, hospital auxiliaries, mental health facilities, retirement homes, homeless shelters, clothes and food pantries, are just some I can name off the top of my head. Churches are great at helping those less fortunate. And lets think of helping people year round, not just at Christmas. My Sunday School class has "adopted" two foster kids to help out. We are helping out a 15 year old girl and an 18 year old boy who are foster kids that are hard to place because of their age. We also just did "Operation Christmas Child" last week. This is a Franklin Graham charity that sends shoeboxes of goodies to kids all around the world. My class did fifty of these, and my church was the local consolidation center in our area. We gathered 2452 of these and shipped them out to kids overseas. My wife worked that all last week and I went up and helped a couple of days of my vacation last week to box these up. My church also goes to downtown Atlanta occasionally to help a soup kitchen. We will feed about 500 homeless people at a time. They will get several bowls of soup, tea, dessert, and four sandwiches to eat later. These people live on the street and under bridges. Most of them have problems with drugs, alcohol, mental disorders, with a majority of them are also HIV infected. We used to take our kids to help when they were younger, they have never messed with drugs after seeing what happens when you do. My wife is also heavily involved in a local food pantry to help feed needy families. Every Saturday morning, another local church distributes food in our area. They used to help about 140 families during the Summer, but sadly, that number rose to 250 last Saturday in these tough economic times. Sometimes I will go up and help sort out food that is donated from local can food drives. So please donate to groups that collect food, it is put to good use! So, there are many ways to help others. And with the current economic crises, I am afraid it will only get worse. So if you can, lend a hand to someone that needs it. Its so good for your soul too. [/QUOTE]
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